NICE and the role of scientific advice in shaping access strategy
- July 19, 2016
Seeking advice from a health technology assessment (HTA) body, whether alone or in combination with a regulatory body, can help companies to focus on the payer perspective at an early stage of clinical development, and shape the therapy development and access strategy based on the feedback. By ensuring that the clinical trials include the types […]
Understanding payers’ real-world needs
- April 27, 2016
All of the stakeholders involved in drug development and market access would like the right treatments to be available to the right patients, but in times of increasing austerity drug costs make this challenging. Payers need to see the value of a drug outside a clinical trial and in a real-world setting, in order to […]
Market access: are payers adversaries or partners to better patient outcomes?
- April 19, 2016
For many years, the route to market access has been focused around completing clinical trials and meeting the safety and efficacy data needs of the regulators. This data is then used to persuade payers that the therapeutic is safe and works, and is therefore worth paying the price demanded. However, as budget cuts bite, competition […]